I really don't see it like that. Google is really just trying to build a positive reputation (which they seem to excel at with the Slashdot crowd) and get improve upon open source code so that they (Google) and their users can have good software. If supporting open source development were expensive, then you can bet that Google would not be embracing it to the level it does.
There's no reason to say that this is a shot across the bow of Microsoft. Google is just encouraging an ideal of openess that happens to benefit them for a multitude of reasons.
Is it illegal to lend/give a legally obtained copy of a copyrighted work? Just because Redding violated his contract doesn't make it illegal, meaning that it being a screener doesn't make a criminal distinction between it and a regularly released DVD.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA04184.jpg From the catalog page This approximate true-color panorama was taken by NASA's Spirit rover after it successfully trekked to the top of "Husband Hill," in the "Columbia Hills" of Gusev Crater. The "little rover that could" spent the last 14 months climbing the hills in both the forward and reverse directions to reduce wear on its wheels.
This breathtaking view from the summit reveals previously hidden southern terrain called "Inner Basin"(center), where team members hope to direct Spirit in the future. The rover left tracks to the left point toward the west, the direction Spirit arrived from. The peaks of "McCool Hill" and "Ramon Hill," both in the "Columbia Hills," can be seen just to the left and behind Inner Basin.
The mosaic is made up of images taken by the rover's panoramic camera over a period of three days (sols 583 to 585, or August 24 to 26, 2005). It spans about 240 degrees in azimuth, and was acquired using 51 different camera pointings and three camera filters (750, 530 and 480 nanometers). Image-to-image seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate what a person standing on Mars would see.
If you are able to get wireless in Knoppix, then you can download stage1 and the portage snapshot from the internet and install from there. There is no need for the Gentoo LiveCD to install.
Seems the trust system is prone to spamming itself. If the RIAA (or anyone for that matter) flood the system with bogus votes, then the "honest" votes will get ruled out.
Please read your own quotation, specifically:
If you vote thumbs-up for good files and thumbs-down for bad files, you will be grouped with the vast majority of people who also vote honestly. You will then compute a high trustworthiness metric for all files that this (potentially very large) group of users has ever voted on. If you vote inaccurately (i.e. you are a spammer), you will compute a low trustworthiness metric for other non-spam files, and honest users will compute a low trustworthiness coefficient for your opinion.
Meaning, you see the ratings that people similar to you make.
For those of you that can't be bothered to RTFA, this system takes a profile of how you vote on files and matches you with other people who voted similarly. Thus, the spammers would see different ratings than 'normal users.'
Given the first-gen 360's will have no HD-DVD support, this could be a major stumbling block toward the adoption of the HD-DVD format. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this contrasts with the PS3 which requires the games to be stored on Blu-Ray discs. It seems that most Slashdotters have a preference to Blu-Ray to begin with, so this could be a foreboding of Blu-Ray's eventual dominance.
If IBM has ported the Linux kernel to the Cell processor, does that mean that they have to release the source code as a derivative work of the GPL if they ever sell a Cell-Blade with Linux?
Also, elitetorrents.org resolves to 192.31.21.68, a dhs.gov IP. And for all you nerds, nmap reports it is running Apache (httpd) 2.0.46 on RedHat and OpenSSH 3.6.1p2 (protocol 1.99).
The stack goes backwards and the heap goes upwards. They grow in opposite directions to minimize wasted space. You would prefer heap overflows to overwrite the stack frames and return addresses?
Careful programming when dealing with memory in a language without builtin bounds checking is the solution to this problem.
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Those are spatial dimensions.
you're supposed to run it from the shell, and it pipes data to dc
Yeah it was, so, stfu.
Dupe. But I do like the information-wants-to-be-encrypted dept.
I really don't see it like that. Google is really just trying to build a positive reputation (which they seem to excel at with the Slashdot crowd) and get improve upon open source code so that they (Google) and their users can have good software. If supporting open source development were expensive, then you can bet that Google would not be embracing it to the level it does.
There's no reason to say that this is a shot across the bow of Microsoft. Google is just encouraging an ideal of openess that happens to benefit them for a multitude of reasons.
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" George W. Bush January 29, 2000
If I had mod points....
Is it illegal to lend/give a legally obtained copy of a copyrighted work? Just because Redding violated his contract doesn't make it illegal, meaning that it being a screener doesn't make a criminal distinction between it and a regularly released DVD.
I get a 20 ms ping now!
Did anyone else read that first line as:
Although stopping short of pulling the plug entirely on Itanium, MS has said ver.sicher.ungsvergleich
MS tears technobabble a new one.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA04184.jpg
From the catalog page
This approximate true-color panorama was taken by NASA's Spirit rover after it successfully trekked to the top of "Husband Hill," in the "Columbia Hills" of Gusev Crater. The "little rover that could" spent the last 14 months climbing the hills in both the forward and reverse directions to reduce wear on its wheels.
This breathtaking view from the summit reveals previously hidden southern terrain called "Inner Basin"(center), where team members hope to direct Spirit in the future. The rover left tracks to the left point toward the west, the direction Spirit arrived from. The peaks of "McCool Hill" and "Ramon Hill," both in the "Columbia Hills," can be seen just to the left and behind Inner Basin.
The mosaic is made up of images taken by the rover's panoramic camera over a period of three days (sols 583 to 585, or August 24 to 26, 2005). It spans about 240 degrees in azimuth, and was acquired using 51 different camera pointings and three camera filters (750, 530 and 480 nanometers). Image-to-image seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate what a person standing on Mars would see.
What's next?
August 2006: Longhorn
Well, it will propagate itself through the internet.
If you are able to get wireless in Knoppix, then you can download stage1 and the portage snapshot from the internet and install from there. There is no need for the Gentoo LiveCD to install.
Seems the trust system is prone to spamming itself. If the RIAA (or anyone for that matter) flood the system with bogus votes, then the "honest" votes will get ruled out.
Please read your own quotation, specifically:
If you vote thumbs-up for good files and thumbs-down for bad files, you will be grouped with the vast majority of people who also vote honestly. You will then compute a high trustworthiness metric for all files that this (potentially very large) group of users has ever voted on. If you vote inaccurately (i.e. you are a spammer), you will compute a low trustworthiness metric for other non-spam files, and honest users will compute a low trustworthiness coefficient for your opinion.
Meaning, you see the ratings that people similar to you make.
For those of you that can't be bothered to RTFA, this system takes a profile of how you vote on files and matches you with other people who voted similarly. Thus, the spammers would see different ratings than 'normal users.'
The courts can always disallow the press and seal all related documents.
Given the first-gen 360's will have no HD-DVD support, this could be a major stumbling block toward the adoption of the HD-DVD format. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this contrasts with the PS3 which requires the games to be stored on Blu-Ray discs. It seems that most Slashdotters have a preference to Blu-Ray to begin with, so this could be a foreboding of Blu-Ray's eventual dominance.
Like this.
If IBM has ported the Linux kernel to the Cell processor, does that mean that they have to release the source code as a derivative work of the GPL if they ever sell a Cell-Blade with Linux?
If you make a selection from below the yellow box down to the bottom, you will see:
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Which is a little strange for such an official page. Looking a little deeper, I found:
<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smart
Also, elitetorrents.org resolves to 192.31.21.68, a dhs.gov IP. And for all you nerds, nmap reports it is running Apache (httpd) 2.0.46 on RedHat and OpenSSH 3.6.1p2 (protocol 1.99).
merely a few hundred kilobites
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Lightspeed is a simulator for velocities at c and below. Screenshots are available.
Damn, I just watched Blade on TV. Vampire robots would be a great pretense for Blade IV.
The stack goes backwards and the heap goes upwards. They grow in opposite directions to minimize wasted space. You would prefer heap overflows to overwrite the stack frames and return addresses?
Careful programming when dealing with memory in a language without builtin bounds checking is the solution to this problem.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.